{"id":3053,"date":"2018-06-25T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/2018\/06\/25\/north-south-east-west-where-does-the-sun-shine-best\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:49:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:49:19","slug":"north-south-east-west-where-does-the-sun-shine-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samsonandsuzi.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"North, South, East, West, Where Does The Sun Shine Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we completed the circuit!!! We passed Zarautz in the Basque country in northern Spain on our way to France which is where we started in September 2017. We have travelled around the coast of Spain and Portugal in just 84 days short of one year, visiting at least 73 towns or cities. And we are keen to keep going!!
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We have driven 11,152 miles spending approximately \u00802500 on fuel which averages out at \u00a30.23 per mile, with prices ranging from \u00801.05 (about \u00a31) a litre to \u00801.40 (about \u00a31.30); we have spent approximately \u008018.50 a night on campsite fees including electricity and approximately \u0080200 a month on tourism which we have classed as visiting monuments, castles, palaces, ruins and historic houses. <\/span><\/p>\n

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We have been to the very southern point of Spain (Cap Vincent), the most easterly point of mainland Portugal in Cabo de Roca (outside Sintra) and now close to the most northern point of Spain (which is O Porto de Bares in the county of A Cor\u00fana). We have been up mountains in the Sierra Navada, been down the bottom of deep valleys in the Ronda and on very flat plains in Zaragosa as well as on cliff top sites in the jagged northern coast. We have been 500m above sea level in the mountains, and in caves at sea level.
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We have learned how to speak in Spanish but gave up learning Portuguese as it resembled Russian! We have eaten all sorts of different foods not normally found in the UK; liver and bacon in a sandwich being the oddest but tastiest! Nibbles varied from pinchos in the north, to tapas in the south to racions in the west; we have drunk red and white wines in Rioja, port in Porto, sherry in Jerez, beers in Basque Country and sidre in Cantabria.
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We have met some lovely British people on the way and found the Spanish to be friendly, the Brazilians even more friendly, the French snooty and the Dutch inquisitive. Samson has always been a source of entertainment to everyone, if we had charged \u00801 for each photo taken of the rig, we would be millionaires by now!!! we have only met one or two other fifth wheelers but this week, in France, we have met a Swiss couple with a German equivalent! Two touring fifth wheels on one site is unusual so it created lots of interest!<\/span><\/p>\n

However, we have enjoyed the weather, sunny and warm along the south coast running up to December, wet during our three months in Cadiz, wet and windy throughout our stay on the Atlantic coast and into the Bay of Biscay’s northern coastline, so the SOUTH WINS<\/strong>!!! As the sun shines mainly in the South, guess where we will be heading now??? Correct, Southern France then Italy!! <\/span> <\/span>‘,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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